I ended up seeing this twice. The set pieces are fantastic. The homages to Parisian car and motorcycle chases are wonderful. The story is uninteresting and at times buckles under its own weight. It's hard to realize that you've seen the best fireworks show you're going to see for the next decade right after you've seen it. It feels like every other fireworks show. I remember coming out of Fury Road a couple of years ago and agreeing that it…

There's a passage from Rousseau that Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert who is, perhaps next to Juliette Binoche and Maggie Cheung, the best working actress in the world) teaches to her students in the 3rd act of this film. It is a passage about desire supplanting or superseding happiness. That it is the expectation of something good happening that brings true pleasure. That it is this hope for things to come that is the source of pleasure. Not the things themselves coming…